What North Korea's Leader Wants for 2013

1/2/2013 3:16AM

Dictator Kim Jong Eun delivers North Korea's New Year's message with a speech to his citizens, reviving a tradition that seemingly died with his grandfather. The WSJ's Evan Ramstad explains the significance of the new leader's public address.

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I ... the only tech chance on me and has delivered the country's annual New Year's message ... and to find out what the secretive state had to say we're now joined by reporter Evan Ramstad in Seoul ... and then and this is an annual insurance for the leader she did have a dress to the country and at the beginning of each year so what is Jinjiang and have to say this year ... well he said pretty much the same thing that ... they always say ... that it's it's a it's a calm and molested by the government ... um it's been a aam pink eighty in newspapers ... during the regime of Kim Sun Il Kim said his father ... and ... so it was significant in a change for content and to come out and deliver the message himself ... he's doing that in the way that his grandfather did ... before Kindle song did this for many many years The was the kind of a tradition in North Korea to wake up on new years morning ... and put on good clothes ... and then go to a common sign it sometimes the political on a school or something ... and watch TV as Kindle son gave this new year's message ... and then as I said during the continuing euro and the missus was painted instead of delivery ... and now yesterday that once again ... returned to the ... deliberate on ... radio and TV broadcasts ... mainland and hear that came down and is a sharing in public ... more so than his father did that in at the beginning of ... his that ... leadership me we were seeing and then use impacts them out of balance ... back in and Pyongyang is so could this all be part and I'm you know forming a new news in age for the leader ... separately a hammer ... appearing to ... be more approachable ... and be working on behalf of the people ... you know it's really focused on ... building a ... base of support and legitimacy for continuing the family regime in continuing the ... rule of the family into a third generation ... than she said that he's spoken in public that several times he has on and things that ... you know kind of more informally as you mention going to amusement parks even talk about amusement parks ... in a speech on yesterday ... and and most significantly I would say is that he started showing up in public with the woman who they later repealed Adidas why ... and that the most recent pictures of her of course ... that make it look like she's pregnant so ... that's the ... news that a lot to people ... who watch the Kim family regime are now watching for next ... a lot and that message is that come from the data may include a lot of anti US rhetoric one of this time along that amount in ... Jinjiang and say anything ... about the US is the draft ... that thing and in fact ... I was that the firm years messages to not mention in the United States ... they will talk about probably the idea of external forces are outside forces ... or were foreigners who aam it came to our putting pressure on ... North Korea ... but they did not ... ever mention United States directly ... and yesterday's message was no exception to that it didn't mention ... the United States record it didn't keep up this narrative go of a country ... that is under siege ... that is challenge day and that isn't a struggle ... and and then ... you know much of the statements are ... made to encourage this is this I have ... no the camaraderie and then rallied together ... aam to work for a common good ... and then work for a better economy foreign stance and a stronger military et-cetera ... it's all in one of the regimes constant message a mean that ... when the siege ... and between regime are protecting you and we need you all the people to kind of work to support us to protect ourselves from ... outsiders to me this um not well ... again emphasizing the economy and in in in a country that is to shut off from the rest of the world did he give any hints ... as to which direction on North Korea would be headed ... in terms of its economy ... well he does think that it saw written and exclaimed and ... I encourage people to do more for the economy it's the same message that they say every year ... I will say that that aims to notice this year what is that there seem to be a little bit of an attempt to put the logic behind the ALM that encourage women exhortations to do more of the country ... there was for instance are no mention of science and technology ... applied scientific principles apply logical ... aam planning ... to improving ... your workplace improving your factory ... and therefore that Mitt building of a better economy for North Korea ... do is nothing ... of the kind of thing that outsiders would like to see foreigners diplomats and investors would like to see from North Korea ... in terms of ... the regime saying hey let's do business with people from outside the country ... let's ... try to develop an export economy but stupid thing was that most countries do to try to build a bigger and better economies we didn't see anything like that ... okay thanks Fran much and am sad reporter training us from